Octavio Aburto
Scripps Institution of Oceanography; International League of Conservation Photographers
Brad Ack
World Wildlife Fund
Yao Afantchao
University of DC
Beth Allgood
US Country Director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare
Hon. Sydney Allicock
Honorable Minister of Indigenous Peoples Affairs, Guyana
Teddy Ammon
Teens Dream Co-creator and Teen Adviser to the Global Colab Network
Ross Andersen
Senior Editor at The Atlantic
Allison Archambault
EarthSpark International
Nygiel Armada
Chief of Party of the Ecosystems Improved for Sustainable Fisheries (ECOFISH) Project
David Auerbach
Sanergy
Kara Ball
ecoAmerica
Leah Barclay
Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology
John Beardsley
Director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks
Timothy Beatley
Founder and Director, Biophilic Cities
Philippe Benoit
Global Infrastructure Advisory Services 2050
Joel Berger
Senior Scientist at Wildlife Conservation Society
Dr. Birute
Robot Orangutan, Spy for Nature
Omaira Bolaños
Director, Latin America Program, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
Latif Boru
Member of Northern Rangelands Trust
Mark Bouman
Chicago Region Program Director in the Keller Science Action Center of the Division of Science and Education at The Field Museum
Muriel Bowser
Mayor of Washington DC
Steve Box
Tracking artisanal fishing, Rare
Paul Bunje
Chief Scientist at XPRIZE Foundation
Rhett Butler
Founder & CEO, Mongabay
Tom Butler
Vice President of the Tompkins Conservation Family of Foundations; President, Northeast Wilderness Trust
Nora Bynum
Rowe Family Director, Keller Science Action Center at The Field Museum
Rachel Bynum
Co-owner/Manager, Waterpenny Farm
Qing Cao
Princeton University
Felipe Carazo
Executive Director, Fundecor
Alison Carlson
Founder and President, Forsythia Foundation
Kerry Cesareo
VP, Forests, WWF
Ann Mei Chang
Former Chief Innovation Officer, USAID
Kate Christen
Training Manager, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation (SMSC), Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI)
Jamie Rappaport Clark
President & CEO, Defenders of Wildlife
Jacqueline Claudia
CEO & Co-founder, LoveTheWild
Leslie Cockburn
Writer, Producer, Filmmaker
Edwin (Todd) Cowen
Kathy Dwyer Marble and Curt Marble Faculty Director of Energy at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University
David Crane
Senior Operating Executive, Pegasus Capital Advisors
Trammell S. Crow
Founder of Earth Day Texas; President of the Crow Family Foundation
Gretchen Daily
Stanford; Co-Director, The Natural Capital Project; Winner, Cosmos Prize
Crystal Davis
Director of Global Forest Watch
Alex Dehgan
CEO & Co-Founder, Conservation X Labs
Kelley Dennings
President of the Social Marketing Association of North America
Brandon Dennison
Exec. Director, Coalfield Development Corp.
Matthew Dillon
Director of Agricultural Policy and Programs, Clif Bar & Company
Eric Dinerstein
Director, WildTech
Bill Drayton
Founder & CEO, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Johanan Dujon
President, Algas Organics
Amtchat Edwards
US Forest Service
Paula Ehrlich
President & CEO, E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
Kelsey Evezich
Conservation Technology Project Lead, Duke University
Peter Fearnhead
CEO African Parks
David Festa
Senior Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund
Carolyn Finney
Professor and Author, Black Faces, White Spaces
Murray Fisher
President, New York Harbor Foundation; Billion Oyster Project
Shonda Gilliland Foster
Program Director, David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship
Melissa Garren
Chief Scientific Officer, Pelagic Data Systems
Sean Gerrity
CEO American Prairie Reserve and National Geographic Explorer
Johnny Gibbons
Smithsonian
Kristin Gilliss
Mulago Foundation
Kathleen Gobush
Senior Program Officer and Wildlife Biologist, Vulcan
Barry Gold
Environment Program Director, Walton Family Foundation
Ron Gonen
CEO and Co-founder, Closed Loop Fund
Brian Gratwicke
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Tremaine Gregory
Conservation Biologist, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Former President of Iceland
David Grinspoon
Astrobiologist and Author of The Earth in Human Hands
Rachel Gross
Digital Science Editor, Smithsonian Magazine
Alexis Gutierrez
NOAA
Jeanne Haffner
Dumbarton Oaks
Mary Hagedorn
Jefferson Hall
Director, Agua Salud Project, Staff Scientist Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Alasdair Harris
Executive Director of Blue Ventures
Autumn-Lynn Harrison
Research Ecologist, Migratory Bird Center, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Drew Harvell
Ocean Health Expert at Cornell University; Author of A Sea of Glass
Denis Hayes
Founder, Earth Day Network; CEO, Bullitt Foundation
Leela Hazzah
CNN Hero; Co-Founder of Lion Guardians
Michael Healy
CEO, New Columbia Solar
Laura Helmuth
Editor for Health, Science, and Environment, The Washington Post
Ginette Hemley
Senior Vice President, WWF
Pamela Henson
Historian, Smithsonian Archives
Davida Herzl
CEO & Founder, Aclima
Oran Hesterman
President and CEO of Fair Food Network
Nigella Hillgarth
New England Aquarium
Anson "Tuck" Hines
Director, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
John Hoffman
Discovery Channel
Kali Holder
Morris Animal Foundation Global Health Fellow with Smithsonian’s Global Health Program
Jeff Holland
Riverkeeper, West and Rhode Rivers
Marshall Iliff
eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Bob Irvin
President & CEO, American Rivers
Naoko Ishii
CEO and Chairperson for the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Jeremy Jackson
Senior Scientist, Smithsonian
Jenna Jambeck
Creator of Marine Debris Tracker; College of Engineering at the University of Georgia (UGA)
Dan Janzen
Co-founder, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
Nilanga Jayasinghe
Senior Program Officer – Asian Species, World Wildlife Fund
JAYO
Rap Artist and Ambassador, Teens Dream
Brett Jenks
CEO of Rare
Amy Johnson
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Founder and CEO, Ocean Collectiv
Kirk Johnson
Sant Director, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Philip Karp
Lead Knowledge Management Specialist at the World Bank
John Kasaona
Poachers as Protectors, Namibia Integrated Rural Development & Nature Conservancies
Kef Kasdin
Board Chair, Rachel's Network; founding General Partner of Battelle Ventures
Laure Katz
Senior Director, Connected Oceans Program, Conservation International
Roland Kays
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and NC State University
Dennis Kelly
Director, Smithsonian National Zoo
Elin Kelsey
Co-Creator of #OceanOptimism; Author of We Are Stardust
Anastasia Khoo
Chief Marketing Officer for Conservation International
Jeff Kirschner
Founder of Litterati; TED resident
David Kline
Coral Reef Ecologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Gary E. Knell
President and CEO of the National Geographic Society
Nancy Knowlton
Sant Chair of Marine Science, Smithsonian
John Kress
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Gary Krupnick
Research Scientist, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
Robert Kunzig
Senior Environment Editor at National Geographic Magazine
Bill Kurtis
Host, producer, news anchor; Voice of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me; Founder of Tallgrass Beef Company
Matthew C. Larsen
Director, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Michelle LaRue
Research Ecologist and Public Speaker at the University of Minnesota,
Frederic Launay
Mohamed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
William Laurance
Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate at James Cook University in Cairns
Allison Leidner
Senior Support Scientist, NASA Earth Science Division/ Arctic Slope Technical Services
Peter Leimgruber
Elaine Leslie
National Park Service
Jonathan Lilley
National Education Coordinator for the National Sea Grant College Program
Maya Lin
Artist and Environmentalist, Founder, What is Missing? and GREENPRINT
David Lodge
Director, Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Jessica Long
Managing Director, Accenture
Thomas Lovejoy
University Professor George Mason University and Senior Fellow United Nations Foundation
Jayde Lovell
Host of SciQ, Young Turks Network
Jane Lubchenco
Oregon State University, Former Under Secretary of Commerce for NOAA
Mike Mace
Curator of Birds, San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Krishna Makineni
Graduate Student, Conservation Science and Public Policy Program, George Mason University
Kurt Mann
Executive Producer for the NOAA/Smithsonian Ocean Today Program
Paul Marinari
Senior Curator, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Pete Marra
Center Head, Migratory Bird Center, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Barbara Martinez
Open Innovation Director for Conservation X Labs
Javier Mateo-Vega
Research Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
William McDonough
Founder of William McDonough + Partners, Architects
Melanie McField
Director, Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative, Smithsonian Institution
Kevin McGovern
Chairman and CEO, McGovern Capital & The Water Initiative
Winsome McIntosh
President of The McIntosh Foundation
Douglas McKenzie-Mohr
Science of community-based social marketing
Paul McMahon
Managing Partner, SLM Partners
John McMurdy
Director of Emerging Markets, CropLife International
Bill McShea
eMammal, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Chris Miller
President, The Piedmont Environmental Council
Eric Miller
Executive Director, Saint Louis Zoo’s WildCare Institute
Gregory Miller
President & CEO, NatureServe
James Miller
Conserving plants for people, Missouri Botanical Garden
Ben Mirin
Wildlife DJ
Tom Mitchell
Cambridge Associates
Steven Monfort
John and Adrienne Mars Director, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Deputy Director, Smithsonian's National Zoo
Margarita Mora
Conservation Stewards Program at Conservation International
Jeff Moyer
Executive Director, Rodale Institute
Jennifer Nagashima
Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow
Fred Nelson
Founder and Executive Director of Maliasili Initiatives
Zoe Nyssa
Cultural Anthropologist
Margaret O'Gorman
President, Wildlife Habitat Council
Joanna Ogburn
Consultant, Expert in building multi-stakeholder collaboration
Matthew Ogburn
Marine Ecologist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Randy Olson
author, "Houston, We Have A Narrative"; Prairie Starfish Productions
Peggy Olwell
Plant Conservation Program Lead for the Bureau of Land Management; Founder of Native Plant Materials Development Program
Hank Oppenheimer
Maui Nui Coordinator for the Plant Extinction Prevention Program
Chris Palmer
Distinguished Film Producer in Residence, American University
Stephen Palumbi
Director, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford; Author, Life and Death of Monterey Bay
Kyung-Ah Park
Managing Director, Head of Environmental Markets, Goldman Sachs
John Parker
Senior Scientist and Research Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Ana Luz Porzecanski
Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
Nora Pouillon
Initiator of FRESHFARM Markets; Champion of Organic, Environmentally Conscious Cuisine
James Prosek
Painter; Founder of World Trout
Nick Pyenson
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
Kristin Rechberger
CEO, Dynamic Planet
Sarah Redmond
entrepreneur, innovator, and seaweed farmer, Sorrento Seaweed
Clarissa Redwine
Design and Technology Outreach Lead, Kickstarter
Andrew Revkin
Senior Reporter, Pro Publica
Damon Rich
Partner, Hector urban design, planning & civic arts
Rick Ridgeway
Patagonia’s Vice President of Public Engagement
Jon Paul Rodríguez
Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission; Professor at the Center for Ecology of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Investigations; Founder and President of Provita
Erin Rogers
Program Officer in the Hewlett Foundation’s Environment Program
Kathleen Rogers
President of Earth Day Network
David Rosenberg
CEO and Co-founder of AeroFarms
Dale Ross
Mayor of Georgetown, Texas
Debra Rowe
President, U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
David M. Rubenstein
Chair, Smithsonian Board of Regents
Daniel Runde
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Brooke Runnette
Executive Vice President, National Geographic Society
Enric Sala
National Geographic Explorer; Founder of Pristine Seas
Jean Pierre Santos
Instituto Pro-Carnivoros
Andrea Santy
Director, Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program (EFN), World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Ted Schmitt
Senior Program Manager, Vulcan
Simran Sethi
Journalist and Educator: Author of Bread, Wine, Chocolate
Afroz Shah
World’s Largest Beach Clean-Up; 2016 UNEP Champion of the Earth
Jigar Shah
President & Co-Founder of Generate Capital; Founder & CEO of SunEdison
Justin Shaifer
Creator of Fascinate
Brendan Shane
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Howard-Yana Shapiro
Mars Advanced Research Institute Fellow
David Shaw
Black Point Group LP
Deirdre Shelly
350.org
Fern Shepard
President, Rachel's Network
Daniel Sherrard
Provost, Earth University, Costa Rica
Debra Shier
Brown Endowed Associate Director of Recovery Ecology at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research
Scott Sklar
President, The Stella Group
David J. Skorton
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
Erik Solheim
Executive Director; UN Environment Program
Melissa Songer
Conservation Ecologist, Conservation Ecology Center, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Sean Southey
PCI Media
International Space Station
Crew
Marty Spitzer
Senior Director, Climate and Renewable Energy, World Wildlife Fund
Linda Staheli
Founding Director of the Global Co Lab Network
Ricardo Stanoss
Academic Program Manager, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Robert Stanton
Former Director of the National Park Service
Joe Starinchak
USFWS
Bob Steneck
University of Maine
Eleanor Jane Sterling
Chief Conservation Scientist, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
Phyllis Stiles
Founder/director of Bee City USA® and Bee Campus USA
Ruth Anna Stolk
Founding Executive Director, Smithsonian Conservation Commons
Suzanne Asha Stone
Co-founder of the Wood River Wolf Project and Senior Northwest Representative for Defenders of Wildlife
Tristram Stuart
Founder, Feedback and Toast Ale Ltd.
Terry Sunderland
Principal Scientist, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Ron Swaisgood
San Diego Zoo Global
Pablo Taborga
PERU LNG
Doug Tallamy
Restoring Native Plant Communities; Author of Bringing Nature Home
Trey Taylor
Co-Founder & Director, Verdant Power
Joshua Tewksbury
Future Earth Global Hub Director, Colorado and Executive Editor of Anthropocene Innovation in the Human Age
Raquel Thomas
Director of Resource Management and Training at the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development
Mike Trizna
Technical Lead, DNA Barcode of Wildlife Project, Smithsonian
Sebastian Troeng
Senior Vice President, Americas Field Division, Conservation International
Juli Trtanj
One Health and Integrated Climate and Weather Extremes Research Lead, NOAA
Ann Tutwiler
Director General, Bioversity International
Elaine Ulrich
SunShot Program Manager, Department of Energy
Steven VanRoekel
Maker, Investor, Philanthropist
Ali Velshi
MSNBC Anchor and Business Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC
Diogo Veríssimo
David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow; Society for Conservation Biology
Marilyn Waite
Energy Lead, Village Capital Author, Sustainability at Work
Lauren Ward
Digital Producer and Science Writer for the Ocean Portal at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Ed Warner
Sand County Foundation
Sam Wasser
Director, Conservation Biology, University of Washington
Kinari Webb
Founder of Health In Harmony
Jeff Weiss
Distributed Sun
John Weller
Antarctic Photographer; Co-Founder of The Last Ocean Project
Dennis Whigham
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Patricia Wright
MacArthur Fellow, Madagascar Conservationist, SUNY Stony Brook
Ed Yong
Dawn Zimmerman
Smithsonian’s Global Health Program
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